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What's the meaning of "to wear a stormy brow" idiom? Please give me some examples!

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Idiom Conjugations:

 
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Gerund Form of the Idiom:

Wearing a stormy brow can cause the skin between your eyebrows to wrinkle.
 
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Idiom Usage:

Use this idiom when you want to imply a sense of quiet anger.
Alternate form:  to have a stormy brow
 
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Idiom Scenario 2:


Johnny is a 14 year old teenage boy.  His room is a mess.   His grades in school are terrible.  He talks rudely to his parents and teachers.  He never does any work around the house.  Johnny plays a lot of video games.  Johnny's mother finds Johnny in the kitchen making a terrible mess.  Johnny knows he is in trouble.  His mother is standing with her hands on her hips and...
"She is wearing a stormy brow."
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Idiom Scenario 1:


A classroom full of students was misbehaving when the teacher was absent.  The students were yelling and running and throwing wads of paper at each other.  When the teacher re-entered the room...
"He wore a stormy brow."
The teacher was upset that the students had misbehaved in his absence.  He showed his anger with a facial expression.
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Idiom Definition:


"to wear a stormy brow"
to show by facial expression that you are upset or angry
 
Synonyms:
angry, choleric, convulsed, cross, enraged, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, heated, hot, huffy, impassioned, incensed, inflamed, infuriated, irate, ireful, maddened, outraged, raging, riled, storming, tumultuous, uncontrolled, wrathful
This man is literally wearing a stormy brow. - - - - ->  an angry fellow grimacing.  he has storm clouds with lightening instead of eyebrows.




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